Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Presenter: Dr. Stuart Embury Moderator: Brian Kathenes John Sloan Letter – collection of S. Embury It’s a letter written by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Menus can transport us back to the everyday life of the past, whether to a lavish banquet in the Gilded Age or a food-relief eatery […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club We’re hoping that our June speaker will have enough material to draw on in order to fashion a presentation. After all, she has access to […]
The David Ruggles Prize is an international book collecting prize created to support and encourage young collectors of color: https://rugglesprize.org/ The prize honors the legacy of David Ruggles, an early […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California The Splendid Disarray of Beauty (2023) tells two intertwined stories, one of love, the other of art. In 1910, the San Franciscans Frank […]
The Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize confers a cash award of $1000 for an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a young woman. The deadline is June 15. […]
Sponsored by the ABAA We are pleased to announce the ABAA is accepting entries for the 2023 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest where more than $6,000 in prizes will be […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California In September of 1926, Albert M. Bender turned his philanthropic focus on Stanford University Library. As one of the founders of the Book […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University, and a scholar of American cuisine, will speak in connection with the current Grolier […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Teaching the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press) is the first collection dedicated to book history pedagogy. Edited by Matteo Pangallo […]